EDIT²: It's still honoring fg/bg pen color for anything not glyphs, that's what the not terribly clear mention in the help message meant. i.e., fbink -F block -o -S 4 ABCDEFG -B gray2 does what you wanted .

EDIT³: That sounds sensible, but it's a tiny bit annoying to actually make happen ;p. (And it'd have to be a different flag than -c). (FWIW, for a blank line/page, ' ' (i.e., a single space) works, while '' will get you shouted at )

EDIT: Yep, that's a 4bpp-specific issue. I'll see what I can do .Thanks, not really a pressing issue.

EDIT²: It's still honoring fg/bg pen color for anything not glyphs, that's what the not terribly clear mention in the help message meant. i.e., fbink -F block -o -S 4 ABCDEFG -B gray2 does what you wanted .OK Thanks for the way out. But I don't understand how the additional -B gray2 makes it "not glyph"

EDIT³: That sounds sensible, but it's a tiny bit annoying to actually make happen ;p. (And it'd have to be a different flag than -c).

@PoP: The extra padding is just that, extra padding, it's another bit of code than the font rendering one, so it's simply using the set fg/bg pen colors (i.e., it's not honoring is_overlay at all).

That's mostly a byproduct of the fact that I need is_overlay enabled during font rendering for progress bar, but not during the rendering of the progress bar themselves (which happens to be using the same rectangle filling function as the padding ).

(And, yeah, that's on purpose NOT to screw with the system's reliance on its own potentially-mystically-patched BB version ).

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Thinking back about the overlay/background thing, you're right: with overlay enabled, it explicitly states "no bg pixels are drawn", and those padding rectangles are definitely background, so, yeah, they shouldn't be drawn at all . I'll fix that.

Thinking back about the overlay/background thing, you're right: with overlay enabled, it explicitly states "no bg pixels are drawn", and those padding rectangles are definitely background, so, yeah, they shouldn't be drawn at all . I'll fix that.

ACK.

While you are at it an other mode of overly I was thinking about could be to draw the foreground pixels in the pen color (instead of background inverse) and leave the background pixels unchanged. Something like writing with transparent text (no political intent, solely to illustrate the effect):